Across the continent
Subtitle: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the making of America
By: edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, Peter S. Onuf.
Contributors: Seefeldt, Douglas, 1964-; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.; Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.; West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.; United States -- Territorial expansion.; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : geopolitics, science, and culture conflicts / Peter S. Onuf and Jeffrey L. Hantman; value: Jefferson's Pacific : the science of distant empire, 1768-1811 / Alan Taylor; value: Securing America : Jefferson's fluid plans for the western perimeter / Jenry Morsman; value: Thomas Jefferson's conflicted legacy in American archaeology / David Hurst Thomas; value: A nation imagined, a nation measured : the Jeffersonian legacy / Kenneth Prewitt; value: Oñate's foot : histories, landscapes, and contested memories in the Southwest / Douglas Seefeldt.